Z-Cars - Series 7

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Sergeant Stone - up against militant management and militant workers. And he won't compromise.

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A teenage girl and night time at a railway station brings a problem for PC Covill.

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Two grocers, one across the road from the other. Both ordinary, everyday characters. But then one of them has a fire in his shop. Goss and Stone end up with one villain and two very frightened men.

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To get stolen goods to the public a villain has to be an organising genius, and that's not all. The police are keeping an eye on Reg Thurley, who seems to be leading a double life.

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Liam Murphy is losing control of the gang. It's time for action.

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Charlie West is found with stolen property. He's in trouble, so he calls his lawyer.

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Sunday is all quiet, but Monday brings 'Open Day' problems at the Station. But there are more urgent troubles outside.

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Night, a deserted park and a young woman on her way home. Skinner is interviewed by Goss and Stone. Then they take the keys to his quarters.

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The Bannion family is in trouble, but at first not with the police. Bannion can possibly help Goss catch a villain. But is Goss willing to help Bannion in return?

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Juvenile crime in Newtown has reached a serious level. A clean-up campaign goes into operation. Then the Sheldon mob arrive in town.

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There's a V.I.P. visit in the offing and everyone is making plans: Newtown police, Special Branch, Headquarters. And they're not the only ones. It's a straight line from the airport to the Remand Home. And the roads should be fairly quiet.

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Three villains are under lock and key. But where is the missing eight thousand pounds? With business problems and an expensive wife Mr. Owen has lots of reasons to be worried, but there's another reason too.

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Nicked cars are normally just a routine job. So what makes Annette Minto's so different? At first she just wants her car back, but then something makes her change her mind.

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A hairdresser's shop is wrecked. In the middle is a frightened girl. She's alone and vulnerable and it's night time. She's no money and nowhere to go. It's not surprising that she's scared.

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Danny Baker returns to Newtown. But DS Haggar is back as well. It's not long before the two of them lock antlers.

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With Goss coming back Haggar wants to go out on a winner. And even he has a friend or two willing to help him.

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Promotion is in the air and Goss is in with an outside chance. A sighting, plus a report from a beat man, might just add up to a feather in Goss's cap at just the right time.

Bert Lynch has almost forgotten what life is like on the cars - out there in the thick of things.

Change. New people. Different methods. Some people call it progress. Bert Lynch, out on his own, is starting to feel left behind. Not the best time for his surprise visitor to call.

Whether it's a family trying to adjust to change or the police force mounting a big crime prevention operation a team is only as strong as its weakest member.

A lad is walking home late at night...

An old man tries to stop a robbery...

Police life often puts a strain on a marriage, as Goss finds out. Stone is single, but that can also mean trouble.

It's the age of fast getaways, but Frank and George are exceptions. They're villains all the same and Sgt. Miller thinks they're worth watching.

Lynch tries to get away from it all...

Mariam Ahmed makes some trouble for the police.

Quilley - on and off duty - with trouble on both fronts.

After a robbery Tessa goes on the warpath.

Two loners. Stone cops one of them, Skinner the other.

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Is Goss to blame when the operation goes wrong?

Stone arrests and charges Andy Walker as a try-on.

DS Cecil Haggar is back in Newtown. He's at a loose end, so he gravitates towards the nearest pub. There he finds trouble.

Stone and Skinner are off duty. Then there's a jewel theft and a robbery with violence.

A lass is missing...

Quilley stops at a pub. Is it routine, or isn't it?

Mrs. Goss and a lawyer add up to problems for DI Goss.

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Sgt. Miller is back on duty and up against another pro. He gets some good advice.

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A man with no name and no memory - or a man with something to hide?

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There's a dead woman and Sgt. Miller expects trouble. Then an anonymous phone call brings more surprises for him.

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Stolen gear, or planted? Stone and Lynch disagree. Lynch is trying to get one over Stone. Then the punch-up happens.

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OAPs are short of cash... and then the police are involved. Stone and Skinner are looking for something old-fashioned.

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Sgt. Miller wants him. So does Skinner. But Bright is clever. Miller tries the 'Chinese Water Torture'.

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A man with a parcel - George T. Wood - who's looking for someone; who's been kept waiting most of his life. And a derelict building, all glass and wind - and someone up on the roof. Quilley takes a big risk.

Fred Connor is the new Detective Inspector at Newtown. He has unfinished business - with a villain named Bright.

Inspector Connor is on trial. So is Sgt. Stone and the entire Newtown police force.

Terence Nichols is in custody at Newtown police station after a wages snatch. There are three days to the trial and Stone thinks it's an open and shut case. He has a reliable witness in Sydney Adams. But one of the villains is still on the run.

A new Inspector arrives at Newtown, Ralph Edward Pratt by name, spruce as a pocket hanky and dripping self-confidence. He is fussy and believes in doing everything by the book. He also wants to get involved in everything that's going on, however trivial. It doesn't take long for Bert Lynch to take a violent dislike to the newcomer and to make every effort to avoid him!

Wives of prisoners are easier to chat up than the prisoners themselves - and Inspector Connor wants to find the missing money from a bank robbery.

Night-time and a frightened house breaker. Newtown police reveal an unusual mystery.

Sgt. Haggar and PC Quilley are back on the strength just at the time Dilly Watson, a clever thief, arrives in Newtown.

DS Haggar doesn't like Ken Knowles. ""Journalists,"" he says, ""grow fat on misrepresenting police information"". He doesn't like old Bertha either. She doesn't give information. So what chance does he stand against both of them?

Old Sepp is passing through Newtown. PC Hackett is on the way out. But both are involved with Marlene.

There's just no helping some people, as Bert Lynch finds out when Chief Inspector Logie investigates a break-in with a difference.

A newly released prisoner, Dan Fowler, returns to his wife Julia and plans to fix an old enemy. But Julia has plans of her own.

Sgt. Stone goes to the funeral of an old and respected thief in the hope of unearthing a few skeletons. But dead men don't talk and neither will this one's grandson.

While Austin Nuttall dreams of owning his own business Connor dreams of nailing a fence. And with two crimes unsolved, Connor demonstrates how to kill two men and two birds with one stone.

A gullible old man, a con man, and a do-gooder. And Tom Stone is right in the middle and in need of somewhere to live.

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Skinner returns to C.I.D. He's after a villain, wanted by both the Met. and DS Haggar.

A safe-breaker, a club owner and a farmer. All three play the same game until Miller joins in and gets under their skin.

All Tom Stone wants is a quiet weekend's fishing, but then he meets Sergeant Rust. Together they catch a very queer fish, but have different ideas about landing it.

Who gets to Big Jake first, Billy Fielden or DC Skinner? One of them wants to help him, the other just wants him. And who, or what, is Big Jake anyway?

Two working women, one admired by Lynch, the other disliked by Miller. And in the background a singular third person, badly wanted by Skinner.

There's a problem for Skinner when a suspicious odd-job man takes lodgings with an old flame of Bert Lynch.

A body in a canal and Miller follows a chain of enquiries that brings him face to face with... himself.

Two girls with their husbands away. Maureen is the social type and likes a drink; Jill is the lonely type, but she finds something for the police to do.

Connor comes back to vandalism and to conflict with some local bigwigs. And Skinner's in a spot of bother

A member of a visiting Trade Delegation takes a positive step concerning th future. But Sgt. Stone's future is left for Connor and Richards to fight over.

Rowena Bishop has a reputation for storytelling. She tells Sgt. Lynch about a body down on the foreshore.

Clifford Roscoe is the local hard man. He's fresh out of jail and ready and anxious to cause trouble. But Stone and Connor are ready for him.

A bitter argument, an unexpected tragedy and Sgt. Stone finds himself pushing a suspect very hard indeed.

Pat Mason is a Salvationist and everyone likes her, particularly the regulars at Alan Doherty's pub. So why should anyone want to hurt her?

Bringing up a family in Newtown isn't easy, especially for a copper.

There's a housebreaker with a difference operating in Newtown. He leaves no marks when he breaks in and he never steals anything.

Sgt. Lynch takes an interest in Susan Rawlings while her husband is in prison.

Jupp has a large family and needs to keep his job. But events pile up against him - his boss and a robbery - and he needs to keep his cool.

Lynch and Quilley are on 'nights'. And a routine call to a break-in leads to a break-up that's far from routine.

A suspicious death. Who is and who isn't involved? And what is the fiddle going on at Munster House?

A stolen lorry load of meat parked on a busy road. A piece of cake for the police, unless the lorry driver's name is Houdini!

Joyce is very protective towards her son - even when he's in prison.

Understanding between husband and wife, detective and villain, Police Constable and member of the public - but what about the co-operation between Stone and Haggar?

Hugo Vallance, an old-fashioned Lord of the Manor, is trying to survive in a modern world - of gossip, scandal and theft.

It's the day of Lynch's promotion board. He's already passed his exams, so he knows his stuff. But - is he the right type to be an officer?